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It's an actual organization actually, founded in 2009. They hold meetings globally, the next one set to be held here in Brazil in 4 days. Since it's an organizational to align economic goals among other topics, it's not unthinkable to have these kinds of discussions about progressive taxing. We can question the real effectiveness of BRICS for actually taxing the rich more extensively, but it is surely much more than an acronym.


Yes. It is the 2nd most powerful alliance after the USA/Canada/Australia/Europe one.

India seem a flaky member of the Brics, but rest seem very committed.


Yes. An organization that lacks any meaningful action besides bureaucratic merry-go-around

It's a puppet show essentially


Completely orthogonal to it being an organisation and not an acronym




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